How about that update streak, huh?

The Favorite Pokémon Picker now has an option to include shiny Pokémon as separate Pokémon. This has been a common feature request, mainly stopped by the technical aspect of how doubling the number of Pokémon would be problematic for the shortcodes used in the shareable list links. I have now made a change to the shortcode parsing, so that if xx is a given Pokémon, the shiny version of it is identified by .xx, and added a setting to include them as separate entries.

This is separate from the existing shiny mode, which simply involves displaying every Pokémon as shiny – the old shiny mode is still what you'll want to use if you want to find your favorite shinies, while the new mode is for if you want to be able to pick Charizard and Shiny Charizard independently, sort of as if they were two different Pokémon. Most people will probably not want to turn this on, but I've had enough requests for this over the years to know some people really wanted this.

Once again, let me know if anything's not working as it should!

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It is now possible to include or exclude base Pokémon under the "Include forms" setting in the Favorite Pokémon Picker. This makes it possible to, for instance, use the picker to select your favorites from all the Mega Evolutions without also seeing all the Pokémon from the sixth generation – something I imagine many people might want to do right now.

If you have a saved state, it should automatically enable base Pokémon if it detects you had some base Pokémon in your state, so it should not affect your existing state. Continuing from a saved favorite list will assume you do want to include base Pokémon in the settings unless the list contains 10+ Pokémon and all of them are alternate forms; obviously the line I chose to draw there was kind of arbitrary.

In any case, as always, let me know if you do bump into any issues with it!

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Since Pokémon Home has finally added compatibility with Legends: Z-A and given us official artwork of both the normal and shiny versions of the new Mega Evolutions introduced in the game, I have now duly added them to the Favorite Pokémon Picker as well. Since I originally added the Pokémon introduced in Legends: Arceus as its own halfway 'generation', I did the same here for consistency.

What with the game having been out for months now, I figured there wasn't too much point marking any of them as spoilers – although I will if anyone requests it. I did unmark the previous spoiler Pokémon, as well as re-adding Eternal Flower Floette (which used to be present in the picker back when Gen VI came out and then got removed when we transitioned to later generations that had no artwork for that form at all – if you had a shareable link to a favorites list from Gen VI that originally had Eternal Floette on it, it will now show up back where it was, since it has the same shortcode identifier it used to!). Finally, I reclassified Tatsugiri's forms as major forms, since I happened to notice it was pretty incongruous that they were classed as minor while Original Color Magearna was considered major. (Tatsugiri's alternate mega forms, on the other hand, are considered minor aesthetic variants.)

I tried to test it decently in both normal and shiny mode, but as always, if you bump into anything odd with it, please let me know. Happy picking!

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